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Sunday, February 19, 2023

New leader of Michigan Republican Party beat Trump-endorsed candidate DePerno who even had Trump lawyer working with him on convention floor and still lost-Detroit News

Grassroots candidate Ms. Karamo won 58-42% despite her opponent DePerno having “nabbed the big name endorsements” such as Trump and My Pillow Exec. Mike Lindell“Trump’s campaign lawyer, Christina Bobb, worked with DePerno on the convention floor.”…

2/18/23, Karamo to lead Michigan Republican Party, beating Trump-endorsed DePerno," Detroit News, Craig Mauger, Beth LeBlanc, Lansing

Kristina Karamo…will lead the Michigan Republican Party following an 11-hour convention and three rounds of voting Saturday at the Lansing Center.

Karamo, considered a favorite among the party’s grassroots

but viewed as divisive among the establishment,

beat out former attorney general candidate Matt DePerno,

58% to 42%,

in the third round of voting.

DePerno had been endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

The Oak Park educator and conservative activist will take the reins months 

after the Michigan GOP in November [2022]

lost long-held majorities in the House and Senate 

and lost races seeking to oust the incumbent Democratic governor, secretary of state and attorney general.

She becomes the first Black person to lead the Michigan GOP.

After her election Saturday night, Karamo told The Detroit News her first priority as party chair is to grow the party with

everyday residents and individuals in “areas we’ve never penetrated, especially in urban America.” She said the party would

focus on local issues over national politics….

Jason Roe, a former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party,

said “crazy” had trumped Trump at Saturday’s convention….

Karamo dismissed concerns about declining donations to the state party, saying that’s “going to change right away.”…

“People have to see something worth investing in,” she said,

“and the party hasn’t proven itself to be such.”

Karamo’s election as state party chair marks the first time in state history that both the Michigan Republican and Democratic parties are chaired by Black women. Last weekend, Democrats reelected Lavora Barnes to a third term as chairwoman of the Michigan Democratic Party….

Karamo, DePerno and Lansing political consultant Scott Greenlee were initially the top three vote-getters in what was a nine-person race at the start of the convention Saturday morning in downtown Lansing. They advanced to a second round before Karamo beat DePerno in the third and final vote.

Thousands of Michigan Republican Party delegates participate in the convention as they considered

who should be their new leader

after suffering historic losses in the November 2022 election….

Longtime GOP mega-donor Ron Weiser, a wealthy Ann Arbor businessman, opted against seeking another term as party chairman….

Before the November [2022] election, she [Karamo] unsuccessfully sued and asked a judge to require residents of Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, to vote in person or obtain their ballots in person at the clerk’s office.

A judge rejected the litigation, saying her claims were “unsubstantiated” or misinterpreted Michigan election law.

On Dec. 18, Karamo released a vision for the party that included converting “‘GOP-phobic youth’ by

transitioning schools from indoctrination to education,”

giving “precinct delegates control over the party”

and holding Republican elected officials “accountable to using the Constitution as their measure for governing.”

“Anyone who does not treat systemic election corruption commensurate with the state and national threat it is, should be disqualified from any position in party leadership,” Karamo’s plan said….

Matthew Wilk of Northville said Republicans can’t rely on the state party to do things the state GOP used to do.

“I think the party recreates itself locally. I think we’re going to focus on local issues,” Wilk said. “I think we’re going to do

local infrastructure and getting back to basics,

the blocking and tackling of winning elections.”

On Saturday morning, Macomb County Republican Chairman Mark Forton dropped out of the state chair race, leaving nine remaining candidates. Forton endorsed Karamo before the first round of voting. Forton said his decision was meant

to ensure that a “grassroots-type” hopeful had a chance to win.

“I honestly believe on the first vote she’s going to have the most votes,” Forton said in an interview on the convention floor of Karamo.

In order to win the chair position, a candidate had to receive more than 50% support.

DePerno and Karamo were viewed as the favorites because they have been working with delegates for more than a year as it was the delegates who nominated them for attorney general and secretary of state last year….

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer…won another term

with Democrats [in 2022] taking control of the Legislature

for the first time in 40 years.

A lawyer by trade, DePerno rose to political prominence challenging the 2020 presidential election results and spearheading a lawsuit over the vote in northern Michigan’s Antrim County.

In August, Nessel sought a special prosecutor to consider charges against DePerno and eight others over an alleged conspiracy to gain improper access to voting machines. The special prosecutor, D.J. Hilson, hasn’t yet announced a decision.

Trump…endorsed DePerno for party chair in January [2023]. Trump’s campaign lawyer, Christina Bobb, worked with DePerno

on the convention floor.”…

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Added: Ms. Karamo’s opponent had “nabbed the big name endorsements” such as Trump and My Pillow Exec. Mike Lindell:

2/18/23, Michigan G.O.P. Installs Kristina Karamo, an Election Denier, as Leader, NY Times, Neil Vigdor, Lansing

“Ms. Karamo won a majority of delegate votes at the state party’s convention in Lansing, the state capital, after three rounds of voting that — slowed by paper ballots and hand counting — went on hours longer than the period for which the party had originally rented the convention space.

Her victory appeared to be an upset of Matthew DePerno, another vocal champion of former President Donald J. Trump’s election falsehoods

who had his [Trump’s] backing in the leadership contest….

Democrats swept the governor’s race and other statewide contests last fall [2022], in addition to

flipping the full Legislature for the first time in decades….

Both Ms. Karamo and Mr. DePerno had called for reinventing the party’s donor base

to include more grass-roots supporters,

a departure from recent history when

Michigan Republicans had become reliant on prolific donors like Ron Weiser, the party’s departing chairman, and

the powerful DeVos family….

Both Mr. DePerno and Ms. Karamo were badly out-raised by their opponents in last year’s [2022] election, raising questions about their ability to mine cash from political donors….

Some current and former Republican leaders in the state have suggested that

that Betsy DeVos,

Mr. Trump’s estranged former education secretary who

raised the idea of using the 25th Amendment to have him removed from office

after the Capitol riot, is pulling back from the state party.

The DeVos family did not marshal dollars for Ms. Karamo and Mr. DePerno last year,

but it did pour $2.9 million into a super PAC supporting

Tudor Dixon,

a Trump-endorsed Republican who lost the governor’s race,

according to campaign finance records, and it gave at least $1 million to Michigan Republicans during the most recent campaign cycle.

Nick Wasmiller, a spokesman for the DeVos family, said they “invest based on enduring first principles, not fleeting flash points of the day” and in “those they believe have a serious and credible plan to win.”

While Mr. DePerno had nabbed the big-name endorsements,

including that of Mike Lindell, the MyPillow chief executive who has sowed conspiracy theories about election fraud,

it was Ms. Karamo’s fan base that ultimately delivered her the victory. And to them, her refusal to accept defeat last fall seemed to be a factor….

Ms. Karamo also gained attention in November [2022] for leading Republicans in the filing of an 11th-hour lawsuit that was rejected by a Detroit judge, who said it would have resulted in disenfranchising tens of thousands of Detroit voters who had already cast absentee ballots. The judge said that Ms. Karamo and the other plaintiffs had produced “no evidence in support of their allegations” that the city’s procedures for handling absentee ballots were corrupt and violated state law….

Last August [2022], Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, a Democrat who went on to defeat Mr. DePerno in the November election, asked for a special prosecutor to be appointed to consider criminal charges against him and eight other election deniers in connection with what Ms. Nessel characterized as the illegal tampering with voting machines used in the 2020 election.”…

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Added: 2/18/23, Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer, Christina Bobb, was working the convention floor with Matt DePerno’s campaign on Saturday [2/18]” and he still lost: Craig Mauger, Detroit News twitter

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Added: In Nov. 2022, Michigan “Democrats maintained all top executive posts, flipped the state House and Senate, won three out of four contested congressional races, won all statewide education posts and retained their majority on the state Supreme Court.”

2/18/23, Karamo beats DePerno in Michigan GOP chair race, moving the party further right," MichiganAdvance.com, Jon King

“That appeal ultimately paid off with Karamo defeating DePerno 58 to 42% on the final ballot. In the second round, she and DePerno were the top vote-getters above Scott Greenlee, a longtime political operative who had support from the donor class.

Karamo’s win means that with Lavora Barnes’ reelection as chair of the Michigan Democratic Party last weekend, Black women are, for the first time ever, leading both of Michigan’s main political parties….

Karamo, a one-time community college instructor, rose to prominence within the Republican Party for her devotion to the thoroughly disproven conspiracy that the 2020 election was stolen….She won Trump’s endorsement in that [Nov. 2022] race [for Mich. Sec. of State]….

That same base made it clear it wanted new leadership after Michigan GOP Chair Ron Weiser and Maddock

presided over

the GOP’s historic losses in last November’s election.

Maddock has been a staunch Trump ally….

The chair race came at a tumultuous time for the Michigan GOP after Democrats

maintained all top executive posts,

flipped the state House and Senate,

won three out of four contested congressional races, won all statewide education posts

and retained their majority on the state Supreme Court. 

Following the calamitous 2022 election, Michigan Republican Party Chief of Staff Paul Cordes issued a memo blaming failed GOP gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon for poor fundraising and a far-right campaign against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. The memo also took swipes at former President Donald Trump. That resulted in another round of finger-pointing from Dixon and others, including former GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock, who declined to run again this year.

The Michigan GOP Twitter account has been dark since Feb. 10.”…

 

 

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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Florida Gov. DeSantis suspended Soros-backed prosecutor, sent law enforcement to remove him. State Attorney Andrew Warren had declared he’d refuse to enforce some Florida laws, 8/4/2022

DeSantis, 8/4/22:Soros prosecutors around the country” have “basically taken it upon themselves to determine which laws should be followed, and which laws should not be followed...They want to change the criminal justice system through non-enforcement.””

8/5/2022, Not Fooling Around: DeSantis Sent Police to Remove Soros-Backed Prosecutor, pjmedia, Matt Margolis

“On Thursday [8/4/2022], Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he had suspended woke Soros-backed state attorney Andrew Warren after his declaration that he would refuse to enforce any Florida laws restricting abortion or transgender surgeries for minors.…[Citation for Soros-backed: NY Times, 3/30/2017, 5 Prosecutors With a Fresh Approach,” “Here are five change-minded prosecutors, all of them Democrats whose campaigns were funded by the billionaire George Soros:..Andrew Warren, State attorney for Hillsborough County, Fla. (Tampa), Elected: November 2016.”]

State Attorneys have a duty to prosecute crimes as defined in Florida law, not to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,” DeSantis said. “It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida. I have the utmost trust that Judge Susan Lopez will lead the office through this transition and faithfully uphold the rule of law.”As awesome as it was to see DeSantis take such a stand for the rule of law, this story is even better than we thought.According to the executive order, DeSantis sent police to remove him.

[DeSantis 8/4/22 order]: As of the signing of this Executive Order, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by other law enforcement agencies as necessary, is requested to: (i) assist in the immediate transition of Andrew Warren from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida, with access only to retrieve his personal belongings; and (ii) ensure that no files, papers, documents, notes, records, computers, or removable storage media are removed from the Office of the State Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida or any of his staff.”

On Thursday evening [8/4/22], DeSantis explained to Fox News’s Tucker Carlson that

Soros prosecutors around the country” have “basically taken it upon themselves to determine

which laws should be followed,

and which laws should not be followed.”

“Here’s what Soros is doing—it’s actually smart on his part

they can’t get these things enacted in a legislature

where you’re just gonna let criminals run amok,” DeSantis explained.

“So what they do, he will get involved in these Democrat primaries in a Democrat area. He’ll

flush a million dollars to get the radical to win the primary,

then they usually win the general

because of the party affiliation difference in the jurisdiction.”

DeSantis continued, “So then you get them in there, and what they do is they want

to change the criminal justice system

through non-enforcement.

So it’s a total end run around our constitutional system. The results obviously have been destructive around the country. But it also really undermines the idea that

ours is supposed to be a government of laws,

not a government of individual men.””

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Added: 6/8/2022, Report: Soros Prosecutors Run Half of America’s Largest Jurisdictions,” freebeacon.com, Josh Christenson

“Democratic megadonor funneled more than $40 million to elect 75 prosecutors in the last decade.”

“George Soros spent more than $40 million in the past decade to elect scores of liberal prosecutors

in half of America’s largest jurisdictions,

many of which are now roiled by crime.

The Democratic megadonor has backed 75 so-called justice reform prosecutors

through direct contributions, PACs, and other third-party entities, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund revealed in a June report. Though many had little prosecutorial experience when elected,

they represent 72 million Americans in some of the nation’s most populous municipalities.

Ten Soros prosecutors, including Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner (D.) and

[“Streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Avenue, What happened today, Aug, 14, 2021″]

Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon (D.), received $13 million in just the last four years, going on to win races where they had

vastly outraised their competition—

sometimes by as much as 90 percent. In each race,

Soros was the single greatest donor to the campaign.

“Our study shows for the first time, Soros’s funding and installation of these district attorneys is fundamentally dismantling the criminal justice system as we know it,” Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund president Jason Johnson told the Washington Free Beacon.

The report discloses the power progressive criminal prosecutors wield in the American justice system—and the potential effects of that influence on crime. The FBI in 2020 reported its highest single-year increase in homicides—

a 30 percent jump from the previous year. A year later,

12 cities, including Krasner’s Philadelphia and Soros-backed district attorney José Garza’s Austin, Texas,

broke their all-time homicide records. According to the report,

more than 40 percent of homicides and a third of all violent and property crimes in 2021

occurred in jurisdictions run by Soros prosecutors.

From cities like Seattle and Los Angeles, to wealthy suburbs near Washington, D.C., to provincial counties in Mississippi and Wisconsin, the prosecutors

have radically overhauled bail laws

and pursued lightened sentencing in an effort to reduce incarceration. Soros

began his quiet effort to remake America’s criminal justice system

in 2014, donating $50 million to the ACLU for justice reform activism. He followed up

in 2016 by funneling more than $3 million

into seven local campaigns, including to Cook County district attorney Kim Foxx (D.), the controversial Chicago prosecutor known for dropping charges against Jussie Smollett, who committed a hate crime hoax.

Johnson told the Free Beacon career prosecutors are becoming a thing of the past as

former tax attorneys and ACLU lawyers have ascended to top prosecutorial positions on Soros’s dime.

Soros’s network of justice reform groups includes more than 500 PACs, dark money groups, and nonprofits, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund report notes. Some, such as the Drug Policy Alliance, where Soros serves as chairman, are open about their affiliation. Others, like the Tides Center, are “donor pass-through organization[s],” which launder donations from Soros’s philanthropic juggernauts, including the Open Society Foundations, to subentities and political PACs.

Through a cluster of statewide public safety PACs, Soros donated more than a million dollars each

to Krasner, Gascon, Foxx,

and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D.).

He also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Virginia prosecutors Buta Biberaj (D.) and Steve Descano (D.), both of whom have received scrutiny in office for

failing to prosecute violent criminals and allowing repeat offenders to victimize others.

In a New York Times op-ed last week, Descano also pledged not to prosecute illegal abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this month.

Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares (R.) told the Free Beacon

the ascent of Soros prosecutors

has changed criminal law in many jurisdictions overnight

and made communities less safe.

“Instead of trying to change the law through elected officials,

these groups are

electing prosecutors who simply ignore it,” Miyares said.

“They’ve replaced DAs that follow the law with radical extremists with an agenda that makes

our communities less safe and emboldens criminals.”

The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund cited Free Beacon report in March that revealed Descano’s office had

dropped felony charges against a man who attempted to abduct and rape a hotel maid in 2020.

One year later, the same man was charged for killing two homeless men and wounding three others during

a nine-day shooting spree in New York City and Washington, D.C.

The looming threat to public safety has inspired recall efforts against Descano, Biberaj, and Soros-funded Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D.)

in Virginia.

Soros prosecutors now preside over 20 percent of Americans

with the same disastrous results we have seen in Virginiaviolent criminals and sexual predators roam the streets victimizing innocents,” Sean Kennedy, the president of Virginians for Safe Communities, which fielded a recall effort against the prosecutors, told the Free Beacon. “As San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin faces his fate in a recall today [6/8/22, Boudin was successfully recalled], VSC knows that Northern Virginia’s Soros prosecutors will face the same public reckoning soon as the American people want safety first.”

Other prosecutors have participated in junkets, symposiums,

and even lavish retreats put on by Soros-funded entities.

More than 20 Soros prosecutors, including Gascon, Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby (D.), and St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner (D.), traveled with Fair and Just Prosecution, a Tides Center subentity,

in 2019 to Germany and Portugal, where they learned about “drug decriminalization and harm reduction approaches.” The Vera Institute of Justice, a think tank funded by millions from Soros’s Open Society Foundation,

treated Mosby and Foxx the same year to an

all-expenses-paid spa retreat during work days.

The Vera Institute and other think tanks funded by Soros also promote these progressive prosecutors’ tactics while shielding them from bad press.

New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice

has the public relations firm BerlinRosen on retainer for district attorneys it works with, according to the report.

The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund anticipates Soros will spend millions more to reelect Gascon and to install other candidates in Raleigh, N.C., and Alameda County and Orange County, Calif., this year [2022].

Voters in San Francisco issued the first check against Soros prosecutors during a recall election Tuesday, with 60 percent ousting San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin (D.) after a little more than two years in office.”

[You Tube image above added by this blog].

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Added: If you’re thinking of moving to Philadelphia: six images from Philadelphia skid row, 8/14/2021:

“Streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Avenue, What happened today, Aug, 14, 2021”

Above, “white supremacists” on Philadelphia skid row.


Above, “White Privilege” on Philadelphia skid row, 8/14/2021


Above, “white supremacists” must have forced non-whites to live on Philadelphia skid row.

Above, on Philadelphia skid row they may wonder how millions of illegal aliens and so-called “refugees” are treated like celebrities, given free US taxpayer funded housing.

 

Above, “American values” on Philadelphia skid row.

Above, Philadelphia skid row. USA! USA!

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